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Show th commission, whoa rail expert haa been directed to go at once to Jlancnee-ter Jlancnee-ter The services of one of the beat rail experts In the country have been aecured. OFnCIAL EEPORT MADE TO j PUBLIC BEE VICE OOMMISSIOIf ! NEW YORK. Aug. 24 The up state public service commtaston today received the following report front Ita reprueenta-tlvea reprueenta-tlvea who ate at Manchester aveallg-ing aveallg-ing the wreck: "Ix-lilxh alley No. 4. consisting of fourteen care, left Rochester Junction forty-two minutes late, llunnlng through . Mancheeter yarda at about thlrty-nve mllea an hour at a point about u feet from Manchester station. II alruck a; broken rail, which waa broken Into aev-eateen aev-eateen pieces. Th rail waa 'piped' (a defect In rolling) and there were a number num-ber of growing detects cn tha ball of me rail. Nln Can Derailed. - "The last nine care of the train were derailed. The train ran ao that the laat car atopped about three rail leogtha from tlte broken rail. Tba two engine and Bve eara passed over the Canaadalgud outlet trestle. Coarhee 47 and 27 1 drt.pped lortv-flve feet Into Canandalgua outlet. T'lnlttg car turned over on Its side and rolled twenty feet down the embankment. em-bankment. The rest of th derailed care were ajot sertouslv damaged." I l'p to this morning twenty-five deaths were recorded and alxty-eight persons Injured, In-jured, thirty-eevea of whom are In toe hospital Of the seriously Injured. It 1 aald that even will die. ' Th track were opened up for travel at midnight. A thorough seerch haa been made of lite cere which are in the at ream for additional bodies; none was found. No defects were dlcove;ed In the euufu. men! of the train. Moat of the persons 1 shu were killed wer In car 273. wbkh waa practically torn to piece. Thla waa a modem car with full veatl-bules veatl-bules and ateel platform and waa lighted with awa and electricity. It folded u Ilk a aackknire. (The broken rail la held by Inspector ef |